European United Left/Nordic Green Left European Parliamentary Group

European Parliament, ASP 1G2
15 November 2016, 9.00 - 12.30
Prominent whistleblowers, journalists and experts will participate, sharing experiences, recommendations and discussing how whistleblowers could be protected, analysing at the same time all political and legal aspects and how to take this issue forward at a European level. Among others, we expect representatives of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Dutch House of Whistleblowers and Transparency International. We expect also to have Julian Assange’s intervention.

As Belgium nears reaching an agreement on the EU-Canada free trade agreement under pressure today, GUE/NGL MEPs are calling for debate and voting at the level of member states' parliaments and the European Parliament.

The European Parliament approved this morning a report by GUE/NGL MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat on human rights and migration in third countries. The vote marks the culmination of a yearlong effort by the French MEP in the parliamentary subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).